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Forks National Historic Site
The Forks National Historic Site attracts people for recreation, transportation, trade, culture and ceremonies. In a beautiful riverside setting, modern amenities for performances and interpretive exhibits outline the area's history. Maintained footpaths line the riverbank with plaques in English, French and Cree. The Market Building and Johnston Terminal buzz with shoppers at produce stands, international art and craft shops, multiethnic food stalls and restaurants.
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Manitoba Legislative Building
Designed during Winnipeg's optimistic boom of the early 1900s, the Manitoba Legislative Building flaunts neoclassical beaux-arts design, limestone construction and governmental importance. Surrounded by impeccable gardens, ancient gods and contemporary heroes are immortalized here, including the Louis Riel monument facing St Boniface. 'Eternal Youth and the Spirit of Enterprise' - aka Golden Boy - shines his 23½-carat gold-covered splendor atop the copper dome.
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Manitoba Museum
This is hands down one of the best locally focused museums on the continent; if you're not going elsewhere in the province, definitely visit the provincial Manitoba Museum. Nature trips through the sub-Arctic, history trips into 1920s Winnipeg, cultural journeys covering the past 12,000 years - if it happened in Manitoba, it's here.
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St Boniface Museum
Next door to the St Boniface Basilica, a mid-19th-century convent is the St Boniface Museum, Winnipeg's oldest building and the largest oak-log construction on the continent. It focuses on the establishment of St Boniface, the birth of the Métis nation, and the Grey Nuns' 3000km journey.
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St Boniface Basilica
Mostly destroyed by fire in 1968, the original facade still stands as a 100-year, imposing, God-fearing reminder of the St Boniface Basilica , that once stood here. A more current structure was rebuilt on the ruins and Louis Riel rests in the cemetery.
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Royal Canadian Mint
Got around C$19 in change dragging your pocket? Thank the Royal Canadian Mint. The pyramid-shaped glass facility offers tours showing how it makes every single Canadian coin, as well as pieces for other countries, at a rate of 15 million per day.
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Graffiti Gallery
Street artists need a place to showcase their work and the Exchange's vibrancy provides a natural fit. Inner-city Graffiti Gallery teaches development by taking young artists away from tagging buildings and focusing their energy on creativity.
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Fort Gibraltar
Behind the wooden walls sits this re-created 1809 fur trade fort, Fort Gibraltar. Inspired interpreters, real clothes, tools, furs, bunks, bannock and blacksmith shops re-create 1810 life at The Forks, the fort's original location.
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Dalnavert Museum
Restored to its original Queen Anne Revival architectural style, the Dalnavert Museum is the former home of Sir Hugh John MacDonald, son of Canada's first prime minister. It has been refurnished with original pieces.
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Upper Fort Garry Gate
Under threat from development, the original oak, stone and mortar at this small site of the Upper Fort Garry Gate stoically and bravely stands, where four different forts have stood since 1738, amid modern Winnipeg.
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Manitoba Children's Museum
Kids learn by doing at Manitoba Children's Museum, where 'hands off' is not part of the program. The colorful, interactive exhibits encourage tykes to act as train conductors, astronauts and TV producers.
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Fort Whyte
Fort Whyte teaches sustainable living and how to lower carbon footprints. In addition to spotting bison, deer and other wildlife, visitors can learn about sod houses and rent activity gear.
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Assiniboine Park Zoo
White snow leopards, white Bengal tigers and polar bears are some of the 1800 animals seen close-up at Assiniboine Park Zoo, which specializes in animals indigenous to harsher climates.
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Riel House
After Louis Riel's execution for treason, his body was brought to his childhood home, Riel House, before being buried in St Boniface. The plain cottage is a life-sized tribute, c 1886.
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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Arts
Showcasing contemporary works since the 1970s, the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Arts has gained international recognition for encouraging all forms of media.
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Winnipeg Art Gallery
The ship-shaped Winnipeg Art Gallery plots a course for contemporary Manitoban and Canadian artists, which includes an excellent collection of Inuit work.
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Artspace
Across from Old Market Square in the Exchange District, Artspace is a massive renovated warehouse which provides studios for Winnipeg's array of talents.
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Manitoba Theatre for Young People
The much-heralded Manitoba Theatre for Young People uses colorful sets for enthusiastic performances for kids without being too patronizing for adults.
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Costume Museum of Canada
Its focus is everyday and every-year Canadian wear, and world fashion spanning 400 years.
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